Champagne Vincent Lamoureux, Les Riceys: three generations of authentic winemaker's champagne

The Champagne Vincent Lamoureux estate is an independent grower-producer for three generations in Les Riceys, in the Côte des Bar. On the largest clay-limestone terroir in all of Champagne, it produces artisanal Pinot Noir-based champagnes, including the gastronomic cuvée Les Fondateurs, available for direct purchase on Avenue des Vins.

Available directly from the estate on Avenue des Vins.

How would you describe Champagne Vincent Lamoureux?

Three generations on the largest terroir in Champagne

Some estates can be understood from the very first word used to define them. Here, that word is: true. Not flashy, not spectacular ,true. It’s the word the winemaker chooses to sum up what Champagne Vincent Lamoureux represents. And that choice says it all.

In Les Riceys, at the heart of the Côte des Bar, the Lamoureux family has been producing champagne for three generations. As independent grower-producers, they cultivate their vines, vinify their grapes, and bottle everything themselves, from A to Z, without intermediaries. Their terroir has the unique distinction of encompassing the three Champagne appellations: AOC Champagne, Coteaux Champenois, and Rosé des Riceys.

Sincere, expressive wines that tell the story of their origin and the work in the vineyard all the way to the glass.

This sincerity, the word naturally comes back is both a signature and a philosophy. In a Champagne world often dominated by major houses, Champagne Vincent Lamoureux embodies something rarer: the craftsmanship of a winemaker who knows every plot, every vintage, and proudly puts his name on it.

How did your love of champagne begin?

A passion passed down, and each vintage as a blank page

Some winemakers recall a precise moment, a date, a bottle that changed everything. Here, the relationship with wine has no identifiable beginning, it has always been there, passed down like a gesture, a way of seeing the vine, a deep attachment to the land.

I’ve always had the bug… It’s passed down from generation to generation here.

But the real turning point, the one that transforms passive inheritance into active vocation, is expressed with poetic precision:

It’s when you realize that each vintage is a blank page, and you can leave your mark on it.

This image perfectly captures his vision of the craft. Champagne is not a recipe to reproduce, it is a creation that starts anew each year, shaped by terroir, season, and decisions made in both vineyard and cellar. Each vintage is like a text to be written, with the winemaker as its author.

What is your philosophy in the vineyard and cellar?

Observe, understand, support

Three verbs. No promise of labels, no militant discourse. Just a clear working method, expressed with the concise mindset of a winemaker focused on action.

Observe, understand, support. We don’t force nature we work with it.

In the vineyard, this translates into constant attention to plant behavior, soil signals, and variations between each plot on the Kimmeridgian clay-limestone soils of Les Riceys. In the cellar, it means measured intervention, guided by a single objective: to reveal the terroir of Les Riceys as accurately as possible.

Champagnes from Vincent Lamoureux are crafted without artifice on this Kimmeridgian clay-limestone terroir ,the same soil as the Côte des Bar, which gives Pinot Noir its structure, minerality, and characteristic complexity. An artisanal approach from an independent grower-producer, rooted in respect for living systems.

What drives him every morning? Creating something alive. No two days are alike, no two years either. This constant variability makes the profession as demanding as it is exciting. And behind it lies the pride of building customer loyalty, people who return because they recognize something consistent in wines that evolve each year.

What memory has marked the estate the most?

Hand disgorging, an ancestral gesture linking past and present

Among all the moments that shape the life of a Champagne estate, the winemaker highlights one that goes beyond the memory of a single vintage. These are moments of transmission, especially those where an ancient gesture continues to live on through hands that learned it from others.

Seeing an ancestral gesture continue, like hand disgorging, creates a direct link between past and present.

Hand disgorging (the manual technique of expelling the sediment formed during secondary fermentation without machinery) is one of the most demanding Champagne practices, now used by fewer and fewer winemakers. Seeing it preserved in Les Riceys, passed down through generations, says a lot about the estate’s philosophy: not a series of processes, but a living heritage.

What is the signature cuvée of Champagne Vincent Lamoureux?

Les Fondateurs, a gastronomic champagne built on great reserve wines

The cuvée that best embodies the estate is Les Fondateurs. Its name says it all: a generational champagne, built on reserve wines that bring depth, consistency, and complexity. A wine of memory as much as gastronomy.

Our Les Fondateurs cuvée. It’s a generational cuvée, deeply rooted in our family history. A structured, complex wine built on great reserve wines that provide depth and consistency.

On the nose, aromas of stewed yellow fruits. On the palate, real richness, a signature champagne of character, both elegant and surprising. A champagne for special occasions, but not for the same reasons as a classic aperitif brut.

Food pairings match its stature: free-range poultry with cream and morels, truffle risotto, scallops with leek fondue, veal fillet with mushroom sauce. And to finish on a more Burgundian note, a well-aged Comté cheese.

It’s a champagne you choose when you want to mark the moment. A wine for sharing, for the table… and for memory.

For the years ahead, the estate’s ambition is clear and consistent: to keep evolving without betraying its identity. To develop hospitality, share its expertise, and expand the reach of its artisanal champagnes in France and internationally , without ever losing the word that defines them: true.

Buying Champagne Vincent Lamoureux on Avenue des Vins means choosing a three-generation independent grower in Les Riceys artisanal Pinot Noir on Kimmeridgian limestone, Les Fondateurs gastronomic cuvée, and hand disgorging, shipped directly from the estate in a short supply chain.

What sums up the estate in a few words?

In short: Champagne Vincent Lamoureux

Estate: Champagne Vincent Lamoureux

Location: Les Riceys Côte des Bar, Aube, Champagne

Appellation: AOC Champagne Côte des Bar

Terroir: Kimmeridgian clay-limestone Côte des Bar soils

Since: 3 generations

Type: Independent grower-producer

Main grape: Pinot Noir

Signature cuvée: Les Fondateurs, reserve wines, stewed yellow fruits

Food pairing: Poultry with morels, truffle risotto, scallops with leeks, aged Comté

Philosophy: Observe, understand, support without forcing nature

Rare expertise: Hand disgorging ancestral technique passed down through generations

Estate motto: True

Discover the wines of Champagne Vincent Lamoureux directly from the estate, at the estate price, in a short supply chain on Avenue des Vins.

Frequently asked questions about Champagne Vincent Lamoureux

Where is Champagne Vincent Lamoureux located?

The estate lies in Les Riceys, within the Côte des Bar in the southern Aube. Its vines grow on Kimmeridgian clay-limestone, the widest such terroir in the whole of Champagne.

Which grape shapes these champagnes?

Pinot Noir. On the Kimmeridgian soils of Les Riceys, it gives the cuvées their structure, minerality and depth, echoing the great reds of the Côte des Bar.

What is the Les Fondateurs cuvée?

It is the estate's gastronomic bottling, built around fine reserve wines that lend it consistency and body. Expect stewed yellow fruit, ideal with poultry and morels or a truffle risotto.

What does hand disgorging mean?

It is a manual gesture that removes by hand the sediment left by the second fermentation, with no machine involved. Few growers still master it, and the family has kept it alive across three generations.

Which three appellations meet in Les Riceys?

This rare terroir brings together three AOCs on one soil: Champagne, Coteaux Champenois and Rosé des Riceys. Very few Champagne villages can claim such a spread of appellations.